Woman&#39;s garment



Patented Dec; 1, 1931 UNITED STATES CELINA C. CAMERON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA woMANs cam/mitm Application led February 19, Serial 429,536.

This invention relates to womens garments, and has more particular referenceto slip-on garments of the kind disclosed in my U. S. Patent #1,709,337 of April 16, 1929.

The purpose of my present invention is to render the garment of the double slit skirt type disclosed in the patent, reversible with presentation of yentirely different aspects u1 lder alternate conditions of use.

One way in which this desideratum can be conveniently attained in practice, in connection with garments of the type referred to, without increase in the cost of their manufacture, will be manifest from the following detailed description of the attached drawings. Fig. I is a perspective l illustration showing my improved garment under one condition of use with a corner of one of the skirt sections turned up to disclose Van important detail.

Fig. II is a diagrammatic vertical detail section, taken as indicated by the arrows II-II in Fig. I. l

Fig. III is a diagrammatic cross sectionof the garment, taken as indicated by the arrows III-III in Fig. I; and,

Fig. IV is a view like Fig. I, but with the garment reversed.

As in the patent above referred to, the garment herein illustrated is of the slip-on variety comprising a bodice portion 10 with shoulder straps 11 and a skirt portion l2 embodying two circumferential components or sections 12a, 125,'. one within the other, and 35 whereof the upper edges are joined to the Y bodice portion 10. These skirt sections 12a, 12b are vertically slit downward from the waist line at opposite sides of the garment as at 13, 14, and so disposed that the slit in one section is lapped by the other section,.as shown in ig. III.

In accordance with my present invention, the skirt sections 12a, 12b are made from materials which are physically differentiated either through contrast of texture or color. In the drawings, I have shown the distinction between them conventionally' by leaving one of them plain and by surface shading the other for the purposes of contrast. In the "0 vicinity of the slit 13, I provide the skirt secA V`color of 'the section'la.

tin 12e 'with a pana 1t ma@ from the Seme material as thev other skirt section 12a, as shown in Fig'. I, for exposure at said slit.

Thus, notwithstanding spreadmgV of the slit 13, as in walking, thel skirt 12 presents a solid B6 coloreifect, as Vshown lin -F 1g. I; to wit, the The skirt section 12a is' likewise treated, that 'is to say, it is Yprovided with a panel 16 made from the same material as the skirt section 12b, which panel 00 is adapted 4te underlie the slit rlllwvhen the skirt 1Q is reversed,as in Fig. IV, to simil-'arly appear through said slit when the latter is parted incident te leg or other movement. Obviously, instead of resorting to the use et B5 panels le, 1-6 such Aasr ,justndescribed I may make Aeach 'of the skirt sections 12a, 12b throughout of two thicknesses, using two different materials and arranging the sec-v f tionsso that the differentiated faces .oppose ""O each other; or again, I may employ 1n each instance, a single thickness of material whereof opposite faces are either contrastingly colored or of different textures with attainment of results corresponding in all re- "I5 spects to those previously pointed out upon reversals of the garment. Furthermore, the waist portion l() of the garment may be made of different material from the skirt portion 12; or it may be made integral with one or 80 both skirt components 12a, 12b, as found convenient or desirable in practice.

My invention is thus capable of considerable variation, its main aim however being, as hereinbefore stated, to provide a reversible 5 garment of the split skirt type which presents entirely different aspects under alternate conditions of use.

Havingthus described my invention, I claim: Y k 1. A garment comprising a. bodice portion,

and a multi-ply skirt including vertically slit alternatingly arranged circumferential sectionsextending substantially around the garment and made from contrasting materials *5 whereof the respective faces visibly differentiate,.said se-ctions having associated panels and being so disposed that one overlaps the slit ofranother with of the respective sections opposing.

the differentiated faces 2. A garment comprising a bodice portion, and having a multi-ply skirt including vertically slit alternatingly arranged circumferential sections respectively made from contrasting materials and disposed so that one overlaps the slit of another, each such section having attached to it a panel made from the material of the other for exposure respectively at the slits of the garment.

3. A garment comprising a bodice portion,

and an attached multi-ply skirt including tvvo vertically slit circumferential sections one Within the other, both extending substantially around the garment and disposed so that one overlaps the slit of the other, said sections being made from contrasting materials and each having respectively at the slits of the garment.

4. A garment comprising a bodice portion, and an attached multi-ply skirt including circumferential sections vertically slit downward from the Waist line and made from contrasting materials whereof the respective faces visibly differentiate, said sections having associated panels so that, incident to spreading of the skirt, a solid color effect is presented.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this 17th day of February, 1930.

CELINA C. CAMERON.

secured to it a panel made from the material of the other for exposure 

